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Area of Science:

  • Psychometrics
  • Statistical analysis
  • Factor analysis

Background:

  • Parallel analysis (PA) is a common method for assessing data dimensionality.
  • Existing PA variants can produce differing dimensionality indications.
  • Determining the correct number of common factors is crucial for accurate analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify the most appropriate PA procedure for ordered polytomous variables.
  • To compare Minimum Rank Factor Analysis (MRFA) with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and principal axes factoring for PA.
  • To evaluate the performance of different PA methods in identifying major common factors.

Main Methods:

  • A simulation study was conducted using data with major and minor factors.
  • Minimum Rank Factor Analysis (MRFA) was proposed as an extraction method.
  • Polychoric and Pearson correlations were used as bases for PA.

Main Results:

  • All tested procedures accurately identified the number of major common factors.
  • Polychoric-based PA showed slightly better performance than Pearson-based PA.
  • PA-MRFA demonstrated the best performance in the simulation experiment, followed by PA-PCA.

Conclusions:

  • PA-MRFA with a 95% threshold is a robust choice for identifying common factors in polytomous data.
  • When convergence issues arise, PA-MRFA with Pearson correlations and mean thresholds is a viable alternative.
  • PA-MRFA is a superior common-factor-based method for dimensionality assessment in this context.